radioNOVO News NY News Roundup for September 01, 2026

Good morning. Here is your New York state news roundup.Health officials across Western New York and the Southern Tier are on high alert following new reports of measles cases. The Steuben County Department of Health confirmed two additional cases, bringing their county total to six this year. Meanwhile, neighboring Chautauqua County officials have identified their first confirmed case of the measles in over thirty years. Public health teams in both counties are actively conducting contact tracing and urging residents to ensure their vaccinations are up to date.Downstate in Westchester County, police have taken a suspect into custody after a newborn baby was found abandoned inside a White Plains supermarket restroom over the weekend. Emergency crews rushed the infant from a ShopRite employee bathroom to White Plains Hospital, where the child remains in stable condition. Police are continuing their investigation into child abandonment while issuing a statewide reminder about New York's Safe Haven law, which allows parents to surrender infants under thirty days old anonymously at designated facilities without facing criminal charges.Federal investigators with the F-A-A and National Transportation Safety Board are leading the inquiry into a fatal aviation crash in Tompkins County. Authorities report a small aircraft went down in the Town of Enfield shortly after taking off from Ithaca Airport. The plane's owner, fifty-two-year-old David Kornreich, and thirty-one-year-old passenger Andrew Harrell both died from their injuries after witnesses observed the plane experiencing mechanical issues in the air.In state judicial news, a Rochester man convicted in a deadly two-thousand-twenty-three shooting has been sentenced to prison. Stephan Jefferson received a forty-year sentence following a first-degree manslaughter plea for the fatal shooting of thirty-eight-year-old Dwayne Hall on Genesee Street.Meanwhile, motorists across New York are feeling a pinch at the pump. Triple-A reports the statewide average for a gallon of regular gas rose five cents this week to four dollars and twenty-one cents per gallon. The price hike coincides with the end of Ulster County's summer sales tax holiday on fuel, which officially expired today.For more news, download the radioNOVO app. I’m Codi Gaboff, radioNOVO News, a service of Seven Mountains Media.